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also, to build more on the op, the fucking algorithms are not our friends. they are chisels. and they wormhole all the fucking time. when we had to, ahem, recently subscribe to netflix, it was a fucking revelation, because we started a brand new algorithm and discovered all kinds of new shit. the problem is that the algorithms are just trying to supersize you, not actually engage you. they are trying to get you fat and reliant on their nutrition so they can bilk you once you're hooked. search and rec isn't about actually helping you, the consumer, any more than this splintering of content has (and i will take a moment to say i told you fucking so on that front, for years, that this would happen), and once you realize that you are just a bank machine for corporations who are increasingly taking withdrawals without making deposits into society. it's not sustainable.

so i've been meaning to make a post about this. i've likened it the great chiseling. i think that's where we are. i feel like everything described in this thread is very true and depressing but i think it has something more to do with wealth coalescing at the top, and i think covid accelerated it. where is all the money going? it's all being funneled out of the working class. as a result, the chiseling. everything has to cost just $5 more for this or $3 for that, here's a microtransaction; fees for concert tickets are like 50% of the total cost now, which should be illegal. is that money going to the artist? very rarely. i have a feeling that we are in an artificially good economy. it's all a fucking sham. it's simple math. low unemployment? we have a border crisis! these are both artificial problems. everyone has a side hustle. everyone working two jobs. everyone complains about the tip screen tablet being flipped over, but that's just corporate costs being passed onto the customer. all the money is funneling to the top, as ever, but we've reached a tipping point where the dollars are fewer because wealth is accumulated and just sitting there, doing nothing except act as a societal anchor. so they (everyone selling something) are chiseling. pay your workers less, or only just enough, and try to cut every corner in the name of the next quarter's earnings in a similar manner to how mankind has treated the environment. but i thik it all boils down to the greed and competition of wealth accumulation. who are the shareholders? you? me? our 401ks that we can't access and therefore serve as a bullwark in boosting stock prices? lol. no. i'm not going all bilderburg or whatever here, but i think the competition for fewer and scarcer resources makes people desperate and makes humanity steep in its worst stink. so everyone is hustling to make it, but no one is getting anywhere. everyone around me seems to be fixing, and nobody seems to be building. if any of that makes sense.

oooff. that's poignant af

grimes left him because he couldn't handle his drugs. she introduced him to the hard stuff particurlarly meth. i mean it's obvious right?

man the halcyon prosaic days of a folksy war criminal

i am trying not to hate. I'm trying Ringo. but I'm pretty sure i fucking loathe this person

oh no anyway

but it's a cowboy church!

what does all this contempt do for you? do you wrap yourself in it? does it help you face the real world, this idea that you are so much better than those who suffer? when you've reduced them to savages, what's next? shall we get rid of all of em?

grace is. or should be.

sometimes people have the capacity to ask for and/or accept help/opportunities. sometimes they don't. but we (the responsible ones) shouldn't give up because someone isn't ready or whatever

there's the main problem right there: we don't have to assign fault for addiction. it's not your fault, crash, but it's all of our responsibility to help where we can and sometimes even where we can't. you can't monetize grace.

i'm pretty good at that this time of night

i once planned to go to the tippy top of kolner dom but it was really fucking windy that day and i was half drunk most of the way up and decided to go back down and get full drunk and eat halve hahn.

nah. they aren't stuck with the nerd. the nerd understands the role of student government. they are stuck with the gaslighting jock asshole who promises a coke machine in the cafeteria.

he shit on a girl's head during a threesome. it's beyond a bit creepy. it's a bit trafficky and a lot rapey.... and bonus there's a pee tape allegation. who might want a pee tape? brock lesnar probably allegedly. it's fucking wild

lol come on yall. biden hates immigrants. remember he's old-school protectionist union boomer and always will be. that's why he's silent on weed also. he won't do a damn thing.

unemployment is at record lows. how many people are working 2+ jobs? how many side hustles are out there? probably the wrong thread but the wealth is flowing upwards at an exponentially increasing rate. I'll expound more on the enshittening thread later. but all the value metrics are totally fucked. it's right there for fox to point out but they cannot because they've trained their viewership over decades to look at meaningless economic metrics and salivate and many of the rest of us also fall for it. you can't unring pavlov's bell one you've imprinted that training.

but the us economy isn't kicking ass. that's what's so funny. they painted themselves in a rhetorical corner. they can't do a deep analysis into our sham of an economy because to do so would unmask them far more more than usual.

they had a lot more than eggrolls and lemonade

it's almost as if this dude is on hard drugs or something

watson has just one real mission: be Austin's old white father. i am serious. that's it.

no fucking shit. it's embarrassing as fuck

the fact of the matter is that magazine formats are generally dead. si tried to stay relevant with plus size and teams during a me too and lgbtq revolution but the ship sailed when girls gone wild became a thing. then mobile phones have us access to all the media and who needs a fucking magazine?

what i mean by yall aren't moderated is that we barely fucking moderate anything aside from hate speech and blatant trolling/shit posting. yall know when you do it. we certainly do not moderate viewpoints or opinions and i'll have real words with anyone who thinks differently. i don't take much seriously, but i do believe in the ethos of this community. i can also believe that ethos might change over time, especially when we start talking in decades-long timeframes when major societal changes are also happening. that means, hey, yeah, we started off telling each other to die in a fire, but then someone real got hurt, and that stopped being funny. so we stopped doing that, pretty much largely as a community. most of the changes tried, failed, succeeded, abandoned, tried something else, etc, have all been with a fuckload of input from this community. so, think about this place as that, if you will. i think that's what @immamac was getting at in the cloak room post. now, it's my unvarnished opinion that he picked the absolute worst example of behavior to point out bad acting on the other side, but here we are. the main problem is that we have a larger civility problem in this country. we talk past each other too much, without realizing that someone is on the other side of that equation. i do it all the time on here. i've been fucking terrible about it in the past, and i've done plenty of regretful things. my way of atoning is to walk forward and try to do better. and that's all immamac wanted, i think. but the real problem with cloak room is what goes unsaid as much as what goes said. what the poster in question did was pretty much the definition of trolling. add into that the obvious and not-so-obvious misinformation posters, and patience is low for bullshit. "oh hey guys, i'm new here, but i have strong opinions about this discussion, and i strongly disagree with your BROAD ASSERTION A. look at this dodgy as fuck ass source i'm presenting as truth! behold BROAD ASSERTION B" "uh, hey new guy, that site is some partisan bullshit looney tunes crap. got something legit to back that up?" "oh, man they told me about the cloak room and you guys and how disingenuous you are!" "no, really, new guy, please back up broad assertion b." <new guy disappears> "no, hey, new guy with strong opinions and shitty sources, can you back up that broad assertion b?" "oh, hey guys, i've been busy. let me type up five posts not backing up broad assertion b. hell, i might not even mention broad assertion a at all, because, i don't know" "no, new guy, all you have to do is answer the questions, you stupid fuck." "i think i'm being bullied." immamac enters room, sees guy bloody on the ground, "jesus, guys, he's already dead" "SHUT THE FUCK UP OVERREACHING MODOWNER WITH OBVIOUS BIAS" "no, new guy, bullshit source aside, please back up broad assertion b, or we have to conclude you are a troll" "yep, i'm being bullied, and everyone warned me about the bully piles in here, so i'm not going to even bother re-asserting or acknowledge BROAD ASSERTION A and i'm the fuck out of here, deuces, libfucks!" BOARD BLOWS UP IN RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION FROM EVERYONE OVER TERRIBLE MODERATION EVEN THOUGH NOTHING WAS ACTUALLY EDITED AND NOBODY SUSPENDED i mean, what the actual fuck. yes, the thread was derailed, but it was not derailed by an honest attempt at a trade of opinions. it turned into a shitfest because new guy poster brought piss to a shit fight. you can't show up with flat out bullshit, present it as fact, then throw up your hands and blame everyone else for not understanding your intent. that's gaslighting yall. sorry, immamac, i'm with you on sentiment, you just picked a weird as fuck situation, imo.